Decision Support Systems

A variety of optimization and simulation models are now com-monly used to help water resource planners and managersidentify evaluate and predict themultiple impacts from va-rious actions or decisions one can make regarding the deve-lopment and management of a regions water resources. Cur-rent developments in computer technology are making it pos-sible to link these models to programs that provide an in-terface betwe- en the decision maker and their models andcompu- ters. The volume discusses how these so-called deci-sion support systems can be best developed and used bythoseinvolved in water resources planning and management.